Food industry quotes of the week - Unilever, Hain Celestial

Unilever was among the companies issuing second-quarter results this week - and, after a period of higher food revenues, said it is making targeted efforts to grow the business. Elsewhere Hain Celestial acquired Europe plant-based food and beverage maker Mona Group. just-food also interviewed Seabrook Crisps CEO Jonathan Bye about the management buy-out at the UK crisp firm and to US start-up Flapjacked's co-founder David Bacon about its ambitions. Here is the week in quotes.

"In food which has been a significant cash contributor to the company, our priority now is to get the business growing, while sustaining the strong levels of profitability and cash flow. We're doing this by investing in the areas where there is most opportunity for growth, like expansion in emerging markets with our cooking ingredients and the move towards more natural products and simplifying our portfolio" - Unilever CEO Paul Polman suggests the company will start investing in areas of growth in food.